3rd Grade / Kimbrell’s and Taylor’s
Crews’ News / Week of:
02/13/17
Reading/Language: / Math:
Unit 6: Our Government: City, State, & Country
Book for the Week:
Mississippi: Exploring the States
**We will continue to read about famous African Americans.
READING SKILLS:
- Main Idea & Supporting Details
- Text Structures – REVIEW ALL
- Citing evidence in text
- Text Features – review using book
- Author’s Purpose - review
- Punctuation & Capitalization review
- Complex sentences review – Review AWIBUS conjunctions
LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE, & JUDICIAL
**A daily grade on previous skills and skills listed above will be given on Friday.
OUR VALENTINES PARTY WILL BE TOMORROW FROM 10:20 – 11:05! PLEASE SEND YOUR ITEM! / Math Skills this week include:
Monday- 11:1-11:4 Lesson Check and 11:5
Tuesday- Valentine’s Activities
Wednesday- 11:6- and Fluency on Multiplication and Division
Thursday-11:7-
Friday- 11:8 and Spelling Test
Clinton Vocabulary – Test Friday, March 3rd!
Natchez Trace -A historical route that was originally used by Indians and pioneer settlers.
Resident- A person who resides in a place
Mount Salus- Clinton’s original name, meaning mountain of health, since it was built near a large, flowing spring
Springs- An important feature of the land in Clinton that provided good drinking water
Mississippi College- the oldest senior college in the state of Mississippi formerly known as Hampstead Academy
DeWitt Clinton- former governor of New York in which the city of Clinton was named after
Choctaw- Native American people originally from the Southeastern United States who resided in Clinton
Community- A place where people live, work, and have fun together
Citizen- Someone who is a member of community or country
Volunteer- someone who works without pay
Note from Your Teachers: / Writing:
Please return the student and adult video release forms by this Wednesday, Feb. 15th to Mrs. Kimbrell. Thank you!
MARK YOUR CALENDAR: FAMILY FUN NIGHT – FEB. 24thfrom 5-7 / We are readingpassages describing the branches of government the next 2 weeks. We will be working on writing prompts using those passages in class. We will continue to go through R.A.C.E. with each prompt to practice weekly.
PLEASE LOOK ON THE BACK
Reminders: / Spelling:
1. Don’t forget to sign up to receive messages from us through Remind:
For TAYLOR’S homeroom: text @8ka3fe to 81010
For KIMBRELL’S homeroom: text @g6776 to 81010
2. WE HAVE FUN PICTURES AND VIDEOS ON INSTAGRAM:
Check us outat kimbrelltaylor_2017.
3.Please remember to initial the NEW home reading log EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT. Your child may read a book on their levelfrom myOn(suggestions listed below), a book of choice, or their library book. You should be able to go to myOn.com and enter your child’s ID (first name.last name) and password (goarrows) to get in. Make sure you enter “Clinton Northside” in the School Box. Your child will get a treat for each Tuesday night they read. THANKS!
myOn choices for this Tuesday night:
- Jake Burton Carpenter and the Snowboard (3.6)
- Johann Gutenberg and the Printing Press
- Thomas Edison and the Lightbulb (4.5)
- Thomas Edison (5.2)
Test is THIS Friday02/17/17!
bear
bare
tear
haircut
stairs
wear
airplane
compare
repaired
pear
pare
pair
prepare
stare
glare
sharing
fairy
aware
millionaire
eclaire
**FIELD TRIPS COMING UP:
(1) We are planning a tour of Clinton field trip for Thursday, March 9th. Information will be sent this week.
(2) Please turn in the pink permission forms for the MS Braves Game Field Trip now. The money is due ($15) by March 27th.
FRINDLE DAY!!
Your child may bring a pen to write with on Wednesday in honor of our book Frindlethat we are reading in class!
Classroom Business or Needs:
PLEASE GRAB ANY BAGS OF GUM OR CANDY YOU MAY SEE ON SALE
WHEN YOU ARE OUT. WE ARE GETTING VERY LOW ON TREATS. THANKS!
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